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no mentioning of the audio formats it plays along with the supported video. a dutch review mentions it can play dts over hdmi though.]]>Jul 25th 2009 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/multitude of packages including .mp4, .mov,...

should be

"multitude of containers including .mp4, .mov..."

Digital Video standards are confusing enough to most people, it helps to use the right terminology.]]>Jul 25th 2009 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/
"it helps to use the right terminology"

No, it really doesn't help at all.]]>Jul 25th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/]]>Jul 25th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/
Since there's no mention of HULU or NetFlix, I assume it's only half what I'm really looking for.]]>Jul 25th 2009 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndevil/sets/72157619242728092/

The menu was pretty bad though, i hope I can get one and test it.]]>Jul 25th 2009 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/
Though the E-sata port and LAN connection is a plus..but still got to wait and see how much support this product will get from Asus and the public..


]]>Jul 25th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/
Really, it's a box dedicated to play media files. Why would I want to keep another computer/file server on in order to stream content, which may or may not work well at HD resolution, when I could just copy the stuff to a drive and play it there?

And one thing that I really don't get: The PS3 and the Xbox360 both are supposed to be HD media-friendly. Yet both don't support NTFS (or anything other than FAT32), which means no files can be over 4GB in size, which means very short movies, and very limited functionality media-wise.

Yet here we have devices from WD which support NTFS. Samsung LCD TVs support playing HD content from an NTFS drive. Yet the super-advanced PS3 and the device from Microsoft itself don't support NTFS.]]>Jul 25th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/but if this shud come sooner i wouldve bought this rather than WDTV.]]>Jul 25th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/

I just like having it on the network instead of having to fool with external drives.]]>Jul 25th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 25th 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/
if WD just released a version with ethernet capability, specifically downloading directly to that networked drive they'd have a lot of happy new customers.]]>Jul 25th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Jul 26th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/
So basicly this is a great product, but the lack of ISO support is a major drawback. Put in ISO supprt and you just sold 2 more :), so until then WDTV is my friend :).]]>Aug 11th 2009 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/25/asus-o-play-hdp-r1-media-player-gets-the-hands-on-treatment/Sep 4th 2009 2:27PM